Venetian Ghosts
Artist Statement
Alone | Mark Lindsay
It is everywhere in Venice. The city's past leaves traces of a kind of melancholy that is hard to describe, impossible to pinpoint. Murky mysteries as cold and as damp as la nebbia, the fog that creeps in from the plains of the Veneto, as chilling as any fog blanket there is. Venice, as magnificent, exotic, and achingly beautiful as it is, is not a warm city. It is of stone and rain, fog and ghosts.
One sees it first in the sculpure. Black soot and eroding rain sadden and make more dramatic the already Baroque. The statues and bodiless heads are the major players on the haunted Venetian stage. Everything else starts to act like supporting cast. Mask shops take on the macabre. Cobblestones start to echo the sounds of the past. After awhile even the pigeons take on ghostly characteristics.
Venice is a city of the past and of faded glory. There are tales in the walls that vibrate like the chill up one's spine. But, like watching a Hitchcock film, we delight in the scintillation and always come back for more.
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